Checking Out Me History

• Context for the poem?

  John Agard was born in Guyana and received a British education due to the colonisation of the country
• "Dem tell me, dem tell me."
• "Bandage up me eye with me own history"
• "de cow who jumped over de moon."
• Last line?

  "I carving out me identity."
• Structure?


  Dual structure and repetition
• Best poems for comparison?

  Kamikaze
• Themes in the poem?

  Identity, suppression of history and culture